The next generation will combine the PirateBrowser’s Tor anonymiser and encryption with BitTorrent’s legal peer-to-peer software, which will distribute the entire Pirate Bay system across its users online.

The new system will work as both a standalone browser and plug-ins for the Firefox and Chrome browsers.

The Pirate Bay’s co-founder, Peter Sunde, has also raised crowd-funding for an encrypted messaging app for Android and Apple devices, called Hemlis.